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Bug 20437

Summary: make.conf comments for CHOST should warn of k6=i586 trap
Product: Portage Development Reporter: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb>
Component: UnclassifiedAssignee: Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) <carpaski>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: enhancement CC: docs-team
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Cesar Eduardo Barros 2003-05-04 14:25:46 UTC
When installing gentoo for the first time on a K6 CPU, the comments near CHOST
in /etc/make.conf induce one to think the right value is i686 (after all, a k6
is greater than or equal to a Pentium Pro, right?), however, the right value is
i586 (using i686 causes a SIGILL halfway throught the glibc build). Looking at
the forums, I can see I'm not the only one to fall in this trap, and I just
talked in IRC to someone else who also had the same problem.

The comment should warn that K6 users should use i586, something like:

# Note that K6 processors should use i586 here

Users of more exotic processors might need a comment there too, if the
equivalence is not obvious.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Look at /etc/make.conf in stage1-x86-1.4_rc4.tar.bz2
Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-05-14 23:41:18 UTC
Added a comment to CHOST line.